The times., 1887-10-28

II Can be Done. and Psvhaps It Would
be Better II More People DAd It.
'sHow to Live and Thrive ON q Dime
per Day. may stand as the text for this
talk. 1t certainly can be dome and,
though the eexperiment may be uninviting,
1t is certain that good health is nearer
akin to the simplest diet than as the
costliest. ~
Now as 10 the lahoring man and his
proteine. Tell him that three-fourffs OF
his weight is water and that to restore
the days waste Inc has to take food, three-
fourths OF which must be water and the
remainder flesh forming, heat giving and
bone making substances, and he will
understand the ease better. Give him a
table Of food, analyxed to show Just how
much heat giving, flesh forming and
mineral natter there is isa each food and
he will soon take as deep an interest in
what he eats because of It's worth to him
sis because of its taste. When he finds
out, as he can in half an hour. that only
twenty'four parts in every 100 of butch
ers meat count as flesh formers, the rest
being water, bat that from seventy-five
to ninety parts Out of every 100 in dried
peas, beans, oat and wheat meals and
cheese are nutritious and only ten to
twenty-five parts waste water. he from
that moment begins To rlSe his common
sense in feeding as he does I'm earning his
living. The popular rule is never pay
any heed to the feeding value of our diet;
let us cultivate glorious ignorance of
the purpose of foods, and go in might and
main Coz palate ticklers and devil take
fIa<.1 - H. Il
Just fact or two as appetizers. The
great PeniRsular and Oriental Steamship
company e@ploy East Indian coolies to
do the hardest work on their steamers
because they arr stronger, healthier and
stand the climate better than English
men, and because-;lot being meat eaters
their diet costs onJ six cents per day.
There are miners in the English coal pits,
the hardest workers in the land, who
have not eaton any kind of meat for
years. / am not vegetarian. yet ex-
peYimented for one whole year without
tasting flesh or gravy in any form, and
all the time my health was perfect and
my weight increased The dock porterg
of CopstantinOple carry heavier burdens,
$50 pounds and upward, more easily
thapetbe laborers of England or America,
yet their main diet is bread and figs, and
yet they are teetotal and vegetarian. The
laborers in Spain live chiefly on bread
and onions and are maryelously strong.
knew an eminent lady who, for forty
years, had never tasted meat. She was
marvel Of mental and physical strength.
Another author friend kept his health
land his average weight of 100 pounds on
a diet that never included meat, the
average cost of his food being only six
cents per day. Another, well known
literary man who looked as beefy as
butcher, was, when last l met him, in
his eighth year Of strict abstinence from
flesh, Another friend, a hard literary
worker, has been practically life long
vegetarian, but he'looks too shriyeled up
to be champion specimen.
What would be good diet for those
who do not need to study their purses
yet who would like simple, healthy and
enjoyable dietary? To such would say
drop the heavy meat breakfast right
away. Not that meat is bad, but it is not
the best to start the day on. 1t distends
the stomach, indisposes us for headwork
and often leads to that other downright
mischievous stupidity, the II o'clock
beer or cocktail. The second evil is taken
10 cure the first, as if two black eyes are
better than one, Bread (not the spoiled
white stuff, but the natural dark colored
wheat as ground), tea or cocoa, eggs and
the hundred and one 'non-fesh dishes,
with a little fish and as much fruit as you
ike. That's model meal, as experience
will prove.
Talking of fish, the more the better.
Pound for pound it is as nutritious as
flesh, though it doesn't seem to fill us so
fully, and its chemical value is far above
that of meats. When have extra hard
brain work to do, say an average Of
twelve Or fourteen hours for two Oh three
weeks ut stretch, knock off meats en-
tirely and eat all the fish can Result,
perfect health and strength and no head
acbes.
/. For dinner, fish, Soups q am not cx.
tluding meat though soups can be made
without it that taste just the same and
are quite as good every way, puddings,
dessert. If any one cares to prove for
himself how little the flesh dishes ON his
dinner table are necessary to him, let
him just reverse the courses, beginning
with the fruit, then cheese and crackers
the puddings, etc. warrant he win
turn up his nose at the meat when he
comes to it, and he won't miss it the
least.
A horse is almost as strong, swift,
healthy and handsome as q two-legged
man, and they both have the same inter-
nal machinery; the one eats beef and en-
joys dyspepsia, the other avoids it and
flourishes. Ten cents worth of wheat,
oatmeal, rice, fruit, buttermilk, bread,
cheese, onions on portions of several of
these will enable man to do his Or
binary days work at least as well as any
other assortment of food he can buy for
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